75 Ah Balling Peanut Soup, Chinatown Food Centre

This (#02-113 Chinatown Food Centre, 335 Smith Street) was a branch of the stall at Golden Mile Food Centre. We got the almond soup today with their peanut filled glutinous rice balls. Didn't think there was much of a difference between the Golden Mile stall and this one. Both seemed to be equally good.

Disappointing iSteaks at Suntec

We've had iSteaks' capped loin of lamb a couple of times at Star Vista. They've so far never disappointed. Tried them at Suntec for the first time. The minimal doneness they do is medium. This was much less than medium. Quality control as one can see, is poor. What with only four outlets to manage? No, we did not complain or ask for a refund or even waste our time on a replacement. Won't be coming back.

Previously we've tried their NZ Silver Fern ribeye at Star Vista as well. Today we ordered the Reserve cut which presumably is of a better quality somehow. Look at the medium rare they did. Serious problem with the cooking because this looked like medium raw to me. Only the exterior was cooked so the logical deduction would be that they threw frozen meat into the grill that wasn't properly thawed and wouldn't cook on the inside while the exterior charred. I wouldn't waste more money on this place.

The nicest thing we had was their tea with milk. Look, kaleidoscopic froth!

Even more chicken rice from Mat Noh & Rose

Has been a while since we last ate at Mat Noh & Rose. Prices seem to have gone up. This order of fried chicken thigh with crunchy skin and rice was $7.

The quality of their fried birds and crunchy fried chicken skin were still good though.

I did not even recall that they used basmati rice for their chicken rice. Lower glycemic index eh? Still delicious also. Ditto for their pandan-y chicken soup.

Revisiting Fei Ye Ye Food Tradition (肥爷爷)

I've been wanting to come back and try something from Fei Ye Ye but have never gotten myself back in Chinatown Food Centre early enough. We did today. Since I wasn't a fan of their sui gao/shui jiao (水饺), I decided to try some 凤爪 with char siew. The braised chicken claws were passable. We've had better from other places. Char siew slices were kinda dry. Which meant that there wasn't any of their ingredients in particular that I've tried were anything that I could look forward to. Maybe they aren't worth the time in the queue considering that there's an overwhelming plethora of other options in Chinatown.

Still the better mee pok at Whampoa Makan Place

This bowl from Xing Heng Feng Guo Tiao Tan (新恆豐粿條攤) happened shortly after the bowl from Matasoh because I couldn't finish up that bowl and waste valuable stomach space knowing that I could have had this instead. A clear reminder of which is the better mee pok in these parts.

Tastier chilli sauce, fried chunks of pork lard and noodles with a better texture. This was hands down the better mee pok.

For a dollar and fifty cents less as well, I also thought the ingredients that came this bowl of noodles were a better deal. Delicious soup with the flavour of fried sole fish and wanton that's flavoured with the same.

Matasoh Fishball & Meatball Mincemeat Noodle, Whampoa Makan Place

Came across this stall (#01-54 Whampoa Makan Place, 90 Whampoa Drive) and got curious enough try their signature Soh Special bowl. While waiting in the queue, I couldn't help but get caught in the mind numbing video the stall was playing. By someone/somethings call Singapore Foodie that featured the stall and extolling the qualities of their bowl of noodles - including the onsen egg. When I finally got my bowl, the first thing that actually came to mind was local soft boiled egg rather then onsen tamago.

Not very impressed with the bowl. It was average at best. Chilli was okay but not outstanding that they could differentiate themselves. Mee pok was okay but many mee poks out there are okay. Fishballs weren't bad but it's not exactly so good that I'll be looking forward to coming back. There are too many good eats at Whampoa to even remotely consider coming back for this.